GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ELECTIVE(POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY)/FEL314A
Course Title: ELECTIVE(POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY)
Credits 2 ECTS 4
Semester 6 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
   Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. Sakir BERBER
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  -
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  sberber@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
To enable students to analyse politics within the sociological framework.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face.
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Why is the political sociology?
2. Week  Differences of political sciences and sociology of politics
3. Week  Differences of political sciences and sociology of politics
4. Week  Political Process
5. Week  Political Process
6. Week  Contemporary concepts of politics
7. Week  Contemporary concepts of politics
8. Week  Midterm
9. Week  Democracy
10. Week  Democracy
11. Week  Democracy in America
12. Week  Democracy in America
13. Week  Democracy in America
14. Week  A Global Assessment
15. Week  The final exam
16. Week  The final exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Arslanoglu, Ibrahim. Kurumlar Sosyolojisi II (Siyaset Sosyolojisi)Ders Notlari, Ankara, 2001. Sezal Ihsan(Ed); Sosyolojiye Giris, Marti Yayinlari, Ankara, 2003 Yayla Atilla, Siyaset Teorisine Giris, Liberte Yayinlari, Ankara, 2003 Kapani Munci, Politika Billimlerine Giris, Bilgi Yayinevi, Ankara, 2002 Tocqueville Alexis, Amerika’da Demokrasi, Yetkin Yayinlari, Ankara,1994
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, question&answer, discussion
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  None.
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
7
5
35
 Searching in Internet and Library
5
4
20
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
0
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
4
4
 Final and Studying for Final
2
5
10
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
97
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.88
 ECTS: 
4
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students have got the sufficiency about "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences". They know the laws and rules about their profession.X
2Students take the theoretical and practical knowledge which is interested in "department of philosophy and related fields teaching" and "educational sciences" to solve the educational problems.X
3Students determine the educational problems and offer a solution these problems. They choose and practise the methods of analytic about these problems.X
4Students explain the theory, the model, the principle and the generalization about philosophy, psychology, sociology and logic. According to this explanation, they declare the basic principles of department of philosophy and related fields teaching.X
5Students know the individual, peripheral and social factors which have an effect on the human relations. By this way, they acquire effective listening, positive feedback and creative problem solving.X
6Students acquire some suffiencies that inquiry, evaluation, decision making, analyse and syntheses, relating between events, comparison, gain a different viewpoint, life-wide learning, logical thinking etc.X
7Students organize activity and material building about related field teaching. They choose and use the educational technology for quality education activity.X
8Students research and evaulate scientifically the notions and the idea about profession of a teacher and the education technology.X
9Students know the basic notion of growing and know the characteristics of adolescence and adult periods.X
10Students research related literature and use data bases. They use effectively the library, internet, the museum and the research center.X
11They acquire the skills that learning to learn, self-regulation, life long learning, critical thinking, creative thinking, logical thinking.X
12Students obey the professional and ethical rules and participate in the collusive practices. They protect the values of democratic, social, scientific, cultural and ethical.X